Re: [PATCH] nfsd: don't abort copies early

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On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 01:39:34PM -0500, Tom Talpey wrote:
> On 2/25/2021 10:57 AM, Bruce Fields wrote:
> >Yes, that was part of some Y2038 project on Arnd Bergman's part:
> >
> >	20b7d86f29d3 nfsd: use boottime for lease expiry calculation
> >
> >I think 64-bit time_t is good for something like a hundred billion
> >years, so wraparound isn't an issue.
> 
> Well, the universe is somewhere below 14B so that's good, but is this
> time guaranteed to be monotonic? If someone sets the system time, many
> clocks can go backward...

Yeah, Arnd makes a note about this in the above commit.

--b.



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